Dr. Laurel Traynowicz

Associate Professor

Contact Information

Office: C-206

Phone: 426-1910

Office Hours:
Tuesday, Thursday – After class
And by Appointment

Email: ltrayno@boisestate.edu

Courses – Spring 2012

COMM 302, 001 – Research Methods
COMM 481, 001 – Studies in Interpersonal Comm
COMM 498, 001 – Communication Seminar
COMM 593, 003 – Thesis
COMM 595, 001 – Reading and Conference

Teaching Specialties:

Research methods, interpersonal and relational communication, family communication, communication and athletics, communication in death and dying processes, health care communication

Research Interests/Activities:

Constructing identities of motherhood, face work in close relationships, family communication, interpersonal communication in applied contexts, intimacy within relationships.

Biography:

Laurel Traynowicz (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1981) has taught a variety of courses in interpersonal and relational communication, organizational communication, interpersonal conflict, friendship, death and dying, public relations, research methods, communication theory and applied communication. Her research agenda focuses concurrently on projects involving forms of relating, creating and negotiating identity, family and health care communication, and social behavior.